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" 'But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day,/If your Snark be a Boojum! For then/You will softly and suddenly..." the Cheshire Cat recites, breaking off when it notices it has company. It's sunning itself, draped belly-up over a parapet of the castle, but with an unsettling upside down smile it vanishes and then reappears on the bridge, just to one side of where the transformation took place.

Katou lifts his head a little when he hears someone talking. He had thought death was going to be much quieter than this. He’s bandaged and his head’s bleeding, his leather clothes ripped pretty much to shreds, and his biomechanical arm is laying at his side, but it seems as though he has enough energy to look around a little.

"Well, h-hi there!" says a squeaky voice. Mickey, beaming, is coming up the bridge from the direction of the central plaza. "It's great to see you again! And isn't it a beautiful day!" He draws in a breath and seems to be a millisecond from zipadee-doo-dahing when the castle's portcullis rattles slightly and drops half an inch. He glances over his shoulder. "Cut it out, fellas! Just a minute..." He pats his newly appeared pockets.

Katou jumps a little when he hears Mickey’s voice, and then turns. There’s a memory tugging from the back of his mind, and then he realizes it’s Mickey mouse. “To see me again?” Katou asks. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen you before.” He frowns a little, realizing that he can’t really remember much of anything. “Have I?”

"If you were a book," asks the Cheshire Cat, apparently apropos nothing, "what book would you be?"

Katou can’t help but laugh at that a little bit. “I don’t really read,” he answers. He looks at the cat, frowns a little trying to place it, and then shrugs. “Looks like Alice in Wonderland right now, don’t it?”

Mickey has extracted his notebook, and clears his throat. "'Boxers or briefs?'" he reads aloud, and promptly blushes redder than a fire truck.

“Nothing,” Katou says, raising his eyebrow. “Listen, I thought you was a child’s cartoon character. Is that really appropriate?”

"Here's another," says Mickey. "List three things you'd do if you ruled the world."

Katou closes his eyes and tilts his head back so it’s facing the sun. He didn’t think he’d ever see it again. He was given the choice of reincarnation, and he chose to pass it up. He remembers that, strangely enough, despite the fact that he doesn’t even remember his own name.

“I’d make everyone be happy,” he says, because that is Se-chan’s dream, and Katou’s only dream right now is to let Se-chan’s dreams come true. “And I’d make incest legal, I guess. I don’t really know what else. And I’d make it so I didn’t have to go to school no more, and I wouldn’t give Kira back his CD.”

The Cat's eyes seem to be wandering in opposite directions. It says, "Is reality best described as (a) an absolute, not reducible to the sum of its parts, (b) the material or phenomenal world, as presented to us through our experiences, (c) fundamentally unknowable, (d) all of the above - please elaborate - or (e) fish?"

Katou pauses for a moment, seriously considering the question. “I don’t’ know what none of that means,” he answers after a while. “And I’m sure it’s not just because of the head injury or the fact that I can’t remember nothing. So I’m gonna say fish.”

Mickey raises one white-gloved hand as though measuring his own height. "Are you tall enough to go on this ride?"

Katou looks up at Mickey’s hand, then snorts. “What ride? Whatever, it don’t matter. I’m sure if I could stand I would be.”


((Katou, this time from post series. Meaning he's somewhat different than how he was before, and he's not going to remember anything that had ever happened in the park.

The shape Katou's in right now is something like this, please excuse the text on there, I don't have a clean copy on me right now.

To see how his biomechanical arm attaches to the rest of his body, check out here

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Katou blinks. "What're you talking about, Se-chan?" Katou asks, pulling away from Kira and trying to sit in the most casual way he can, though it still looks somewhat pained. He was starting to get a little light headed, but all he needed to do was sit for a bit more, and then he'd be fine. "I'm fine. I'm in any condition I need to be."

He blinks, then looks at Mickey and the Cat. "Wait, what do they need to finish?" He hasn't actually forgotten the questions yet, but he still has no idea what's going on.

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"You look awful," Setsuna blandly tells Katou, almost accustomed to this sort of stupid stubbornness. Almost. He sighs and frowns at the cat and mouse duo, hoping this would, indeed, be quick.

Setsuna fumes a little remembering Hot Streak was staying in Katou's house and adds, "Yeah. That other jerk is probably still staying in Katou's old place, and he probably shouldn't be on his own just yet, anyway. We can do that." He wasn't sure if Katou would want to stay with them, but at least for the first few weeks, he wasn't being given an option.

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"Maybe, but hell, I lost my arm and I was fine, remember?" he said.

He blinked. "My old place? Don't know where that is, but I'd rather stay with you."

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"Well, at least that's settled," Setsuna says on the matter of living space.

Just one little thing to address. He turns to Katou and says, calmly, "Kat-chan, I can't 'member something that I've not seen happen. I mean, I can tell you've got a replacement now, but...." He trails off, not sure Katou's getting it.

Maybe it would be better to try explaining this later on.

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He blinked. "Of course you saw it," he said. "You were standing right behind me when it happened."

Katou's really not getting it. His memories are muddled enough as it is - though at least they're coming back to him easily enough - and he hasn't even considered the concept that this is a different Setsuna and Kira.

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"This is just too weird," Setsuna mutters, looking frustrated about it. "Kat-chan...the Katou I knew? Acted like he hated me half the time, and said it sometimes. He'd never protect me from anyone, least of all Kira."

Maybe that would help? Give Katou an idea of what Katou Setsuna was accustomed to?

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Katou blinked. "Fuck, that was a long time ago," Katou muttered, and would've ran his hand through his hair if his hair wasn't bloody and bandaged. "Yeah, I remember trying to kill you, but I'm your Guardian Spirit. I gotta protect you."

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This left Setsuna wide-eyed and simply moving his mouth for a moment. Wait, what?

"Katou...you're guardian to another Setsuna. Not me. I'm a different one. Can you understand that?" the kid asked, not sure if it would matter to Katou. This fact didn't matter to Setsuna in the reverse, after all.

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Katou shook his head. "No, I'm guardian to you," Katou says. "I know you. I don't care if you're from the past or whatever, I'm going to protect you, no matter what time you're from. You're Alexiel, right?"

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"Katou...I...." Setsuna is just stunned for a moment. Katou seems to feel the same way Setsuna does. It didn't matter about time or different universes of anything. It was touching enough his throat felt tighten.

But when Katou brings up Alexiel, Setsuna shakes his head with a bit more confidence and tries to say, "I'm not her. I'm Setsuna," but it all fails and he settles for reaching over to hug Katou tightly. "Fuck it. Who cares. I missed you. You can do whatever you want."

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Katou hugs Setsuna back. "I know you're not," he mutters. "I like Se-chan better than I do Alexiel anyway," he said.

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To Katou's words, Setsuna laughs, full and cheerfully. "At least someone other than Sara thinks that way," Setsuna tells him, only half-joking. He doesn't look at Kira, and tries very hard to not even think about him, but he does let go of Katou, smiling.

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Katou plays around with the idea for a moment, and then decides that hell, he needs to start picking on Setsuna sooner or later.

"Yeah, well, after I get over the whole you-murdering-me-thing, you're not such a bad guy." He knows it was actually Alexiel who did it, but hell, why should he ruin all his fun right away.

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"Huh?" Setsuna is stunned at the very idea. Oh, not that on occasion he hadn't wanted to beat Katou to a pulp, but killing him? That was a little extreme, at least with how he felt about Katou. Anyone else from Kira's gang, however, wouldn't have surprised Setsuna, much.

"What the hell did you do to piss me off that much?" the kid ends up asking.

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Katou looked hurt. "Nothing!" he said, feigning innocence. "Really! But you still like, sliced me in half."

He ran his thumb over his chest where the scar had once been, and where his thumb ran, his skin ripped somewhat and the scar that he had had when he had first appeared in Hades reappeared. "See, clean in half."

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Setsuna looks from Katou and the bizarre explanation (he was sure there was no way he'd kill Katou without a reason), and looks back at Kira. "You think so, Senpai? Why's that? I mean, aside from the fact I wouldn't do that."

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"Heeey," Katou whinged, pouting up at Kira. "Way to ruin my fun." He looked at Setsuna, leaning back a little. “Kira’s right though. I got possessed by Rociel – Alexiel’s twin brother, crazy as fuck – and Alexiel killed me. Se-chan brought me back though.” He grinned at this.